The Cornell University Library

The Cornell University Library
A groundbreaking center for digital collections

The Cornell University Library (CUL) system comprises 20 member libraries representing one of the 10 largest research libraries in North America. With over 7 million printed volumes in its collections, nearly 65,000 journal and magazine subscriptions, more than 100,000 sound recordings, and nearly a quarter of a million maps, CUL provides an intellectual backbone to the university’s activities. It has been also a pioneer in the digitalization of historical material to be included in online archives. The digital archives include comprehensive collections of images, texts, data or videos that can be browsed and/or searched for free. Some examples are: the Political Communications Web, a project which entails a planning effort to develop effective methodologies for the systematic, sustainable preservation of Web-based political communications, and Making of America, a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the internet a distributed digital library of important material about US history. An additional resource is the DSpace digital repository, an open source system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes digital research material, where users can access full-text material for free including working papers and research. The CUL site features an intuitive outline thus making its navigation straightforward and enjoyable.

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Library Catalogues

The Library Online Public Access Catalogues or OPAC are integrated databases provided with their own search engines. The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, provides access to nearly 128 million items in 450 languages, many millions of records in a broad range of formats from books to multimedia. The Online Computer Library Center, as a co-operative of 50,000 libraries and research organizations, produces and maintains WorldCat with 50 million records in 400 languages.
Library Catalogues
Indexes and Abstracts
Articles and Books
Encyclopedias

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The bulletin of the International Political Science Association.
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International Political Science Review
The IPSA Journal, with five issues per year.
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International Political Science Abstracts
abstracts with worldwide coverage and perspective.
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Poznań 2016
The IPSA World Congress of Political Science, July 23-28, 2016.
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